A Swiss start-up has developed a new solar lamp that is more effective, safer and less expensive than the traditional oil lamp used by more than one billion people in the world, including in India.
A Swiss start-up has developed a new solar lamp that is more effective, safer and less expensive than the traditional oil lamp used by more than one billion people in the world, including in India.
To overcome the many problems posed by kerosene lamps used by 1.6 billion people across the globe, LEDsafari has developed an ingenious system for a do it yourself lamp made from equipment available on site, such as electrical wire, a mobile phone battery and empty bottles.
Swiss start-up company LEDsafari of Lausanne has a solar lamp developed in only five nearly always available parts, and which can be put in by the population in developing countries themselves apart and repaired. The lamp is designed as a cheaper, less dangerous and less polluting alternative to the oil lamps that are used by 1.6 billion people around the world.
One of five inventors of the LEDsafari lamp interviewed an African student who was recently trained to build his own LEDsafari. The student is very enthused about the invention because it is going to bring affordable light to his continent, giving Africans more time in the evening to study, to discuss, to work, to create.
People understand how our lamp works and that it is more favorable than the traditional kerosene lamps, they are also our technology use , “he explains . Even though the Lamp primarily a humanitarian met need is the potential for climate protection.
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